Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
Behind the mass of confusion over maps lies a basic problem: India has no mapping policy. To fill this vacuum, various authorities have arrogated to themselves regulations of using, printing, publishing and developing maps. Geographical information is also not part of the more fundamental right to information. While the state …
ON SEPTEMBER 20, 2004 India successfully launched Edusat, so becoming the first country in the world with a satellite exclusively reserved for educational purposes. The first operational flight of the 2000-kg class GSVL rocket
if one thought that the Indian Space Research Organisation (isro) getting a us $10 million contract to launch an European satellite is a pleasant aberration, then wait and watch. Many more such surprises are in store. Discussions held during a recent conference indicate that isro may soon be rubbing shoulders …
sky's the limit: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to launch a European satellite into orbit from its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle by the end of 2005. ISRO chief Madhavan Nair said this would be the first EU satellite to be launched by the country. The organisation recently …
An unmanned supersonic jet has startled the world with a flight speed seven times more than that of sound (Mach 7). The us' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) successfully tested the x-43 a supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet), which flew at a speed of 7,700 kilometres per hour. The scramjet …
Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system. With a colourful ring system surrounding the planet, it is highly attractive. Only brief observations, using telescopes, Pioneer-11, Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 in situ recorders have been made. Comparatively impressive details of Saturn have already been obtained. A space mission named …
The European Space Agency (esa) claims that its Mars orbiter has detected direct evidence of water in the form of ice on the planet's surface. According to esa scientists, the discovery is based on water vapour molecules' analysis by an infrared camera aboard the Mars Express spacecraft that is circling …
function mars() { var popurl="html/20040131_mars.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=550,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } The world's powers celebrated Christmas 2003 in style: they sent robotic geologists to the red planet Mars, Earth's uninviting and hostile neighbour. Two major space-faring powers, the European Union (eu) and the us, extended their race for space supremacy to Mars with their …
thirty years after they were abandoned for good, nuclear reactors are making a fatal comeback in the us spacecrafts. In 2003, the us National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) was notified about a federal commitment of us $3 billion to develop nuclear-fuelled engines in the next five years. The sum …
We may celebrate Christmas Day this year in the name of science. On that day, the 400 million kilometer voyage of Beagle 2 will end: it will land on Mars, culminating Europe's first mission to explore other planets. In what is clearly a race with the us, it will try …
It was launched in 1977, the year rock icon Elvis Presley died of a heart attack. Now, scientists are wondering if space probe Voyager 1 has broken the ultimate record of space endurance. They say the latest data from its enfeebled instruments suggests the probe has gone beyond the edge …
On October 30, 2003, China and the European Union (eu) signed an agreement committing the former to a stake in the Galileo satellite navigation system. At a high-level ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing
the Universe contains about 70 sextillions (70 thousand million million million) observable stars, according to an estimate of a team led by astronomer Simon Driver of the Australian National University. "This is not the total number of stars in the Universe, but it's the number within the range of telescopes,' …
dupont scientists have discovered that soyabeans grown in space are similar to crops grown on the Earth. A 97-day long research, conducted on the International Space Station, was the first project during which a crop's growth cycle was completed in space
toddlers in trouble: A research institute has found high levels of mercury in 60 per cent of newborns at hospitals in Itaituba city, in the Brazilian Amazon. Out of the 1,666 babies born during 2002 in the hospitals, 1,000 were detected with mercury contamination. Some of the kids had 80 …
the hills were alive with the sound of music, with the songs they have sung for a thousand years. The teeny-weeny creature was gazing from far above. "The gates were open and the hills were beckoning
The Indian Space Research Organisation (isro) has requested the Union government to approve its project aimed at dispatching an unmanned spacecraft to orbit the moon. The organisation expects clearance "in the next few months'. The Rs 385-crore mission is expected to culminate in 2008. A group of 70 premier scientists …
An unstable glacier in Peru has raised fears of flooding. A huge lump of the glacier, which feeds Palcacocha lake in the Andes, is threatening to crack and drop into the lake below. Peruvian authorities are using satellite images from the us -based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) to …
The investigation into the Columbia shuttle disaster in February has thrown up a startling detail. Inaccurate computer data misled flight engineers into thinking that the shuttle could return safely to Earth, reveals the probe team. Scientists had concluded during the flight that a minor incident during lift-off
